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All public transcripts and decisions for immigration detainees in Ontario, who had been detained between January 1, 2018 and January 31, 2018.
Information on what percentage of all detentions are transcribed.

Request in regards to training on the use and effect of jurisprudential guidelines
Any records including but not limited to memoranda, guides, briefing notes, and training materials informing Members on the effect of the identification of a case as
jurisprudential guides. Specifically, the way in which Members are expected to follow or depart from the reasoning in a decision identified as a jurisprudential guide as
described in Section 9 of the Policy on the Use of Jurisprudential Guides (Policy 2003-01, as amended on December 1, 2016).

“Please provide copies of all internal correspondence, including emails and memos, to or from members of the Refugee Protection Division regarding the contents of the National Documentation Packages from January 1st, 2015 to present (October 10, 2018). I would like to keep it for any region or any country. I'm looking for content in
which the potential bias of the NDP contents is discussed with an RPD member involved in the correspondence”

I request complete data from IRB on all RPD hearings conducted with counsel Ian D. Hamilton. Data is to include date of hearing, total time of hearing and the RPD file number. Data is for period 18 June 2018 to 31 December 2018 inclusive.

‘Any reports, studies, memo’s or analysis generated by the IRB since October 1, 2017 to present [June 15, 2018] on the impact of the irregular border crossings on the backlog before the Board, including but not limited to documents that discuss the cost to the Board, backlogs in the system, wait times for hearings or impact on other lines of business at the IRB.
Please include any documents prepared for the Immigration Minister, but also those for the IRB Chairperson or Deputy Chairs.
Please provide the final version but if none exists, the most recent draft.
Only records that have been created and or produced by the IRB are to be included in the records requested.
Please exclude anything that would require consultation for cabinet confidence.

The statistical breakdown of the following information:
1) Since May 25, 2009, for Member Larry James Campbell:
a) the number of decisions made;
b) the number of Appeals granted and copy of decisions;
c) the number of Appeals dismissed.
2) All culture & gender sensitivity training carried out/attended by Member Campbell.

Please provide all documents and records related to complaints against Immigration and Refugee Board members between 2012-2017. We are looking for all members in
the ID, RPD, RAD and IAD. Please exclude all media reports
Clarification rec'd January 10, 2018
We are looking for all members in the ID, RPD, RAD and IAD

Listing or IRB file numbers, member names and Federal Court file numbers for all RPD and RAD matters which were the subject of successfull judicial review applications
from January 1st 2015 to present (October 10, 2018)

In the audit of long term detention cases before the Immigration Division, the auditor writes the following:
Perhaps the most glaring example is a hearing at which danger to the public is added as reason for detention, for the first time, after a person has already been held for
more than a year. There is no new event; CBSA does not argue for the additional ground. The decision cites an extensive history of convictions occurring "not that long
ago", without seeming to seriously take into account that almost all convictions took place more than 10 years earlier. The Member .states: ''Of course I will maintain the
ground of danger ... " without apparently realizing that he is adding a new ground. He gives no basis for deciding differently.
In this case, the ground of public danger is then maintained in subsequent hearings, based on consistency with this decision. In more than one hearing, the detained person
tries to challenge the public danger finding. She is unrepresented. At one hearing, her submissions to the effect that she is not a public danger and has never hurt anyone
are abruptly cut off. This hearing is presided over by the very presiding Member who first added public danger as a ground; he chides her for not understanding the basis on
which she was considered to be a public danger, saying: "You've been through this process of detention review many times now ... I believe you should know that you don't
need to have killed someone to be considered to be a danger to the public. You should know that." And yet it was this presiding Member who added public danger as a
ground without giving any basis for coming to a different decision on this than at all previous reviews and without any submissions from either party.
I have emphasized two passages. I request the full transcripts from which these two quotations are drawn.

I am writing to formally request information on the following statistics, regarding unaccompanied minor refugee children making refugee claims at the Immigration and
Refugee Board:
• The number of unaccompanied minor refugee claimants referred to the IRB in Canada (all regions) in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
• The number of unaccompanied minor refugee claimants.referred to the IRB in Ontario (central region) in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
• The number of unaccompanied minor refugee claimants referred to the IRB in Canada (all regions) from January 1, 2018 to September 30; 2018.
• The number of unaccompanied minor refugee claimants referred to the IRB in Ontario (central region) from January 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018.